Thomas Love Peacock Quotes

• There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Drinking, Wine, Two

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• The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Scarcity, Waste, Resources

  Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”, p.208

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• I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Past, World, Impossible

  Thomas Love Peacock (1861). “Gryll grange, by the author of 'Headlong hall'.”, p.80

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• They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks. I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Science, Destiny, Thinking

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• El zumo de la uva es la quintaesencia líquida de los rayos de sol concentrados.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Food, Wine, Juice

  Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”

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• El matrimonio puede ser a menudo un lago tempestuoso, pero el celibato es casi siempre un estanque fangoso.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Relationship, Marriage, Lakes

  'Melincourt' (1817)

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• I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Love, Destiny, Thinking

  Thomas Love Peacock (1861). “Gryll grange, by the author of 'Headlong hall'.”, p.161

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• ... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Greek, Humanity, Insulting

  'Crotchet Castle' (1831) ch. 7

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• Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Clouds, Heaven, Vaults

  Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Rhododaphne: Or, The Thessalian Spell: A Poem”, p.119

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• Nunca he dejado de convencer a un público de que lo mejor que podía hacer era marcharse.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Work, Going Away, Convincing

  Thomas Love Peacock (1856). “Maid Marian, and Crotchet Castle”, p.222

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• A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Book, Quotations

  "Crotchet Castle".

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• Time is lord of thee:
  Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Names, Wealth

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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• Mantuvo la marca del verdadero buen humor El flujo social de la marea del placer: Nunca oscureció un ceño, Ni provocó una lágrima, sino cuando murió.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Sympathy, Condolences, Dark

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• My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Past, Night, Air

  Thomas Love Peacock (1928). “Selections from Thomas Love Peacock”

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• When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Taken, School, Usual

  Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Nightmare Abbey”, p.5

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• Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Laughter, Age, Too Much

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• The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Genius, Records, Proof

  Thomas Love Peacock (1818). “Nightmare Abbey”, p.164

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• In a bowl to sea went wise men three,
  On a brilliant night of June:
  They carried a net, and their hearts were set
  On fishing up the moon.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Verano, Sabio, Corazón

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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• Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand
  Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away.
  Who shall resist the summons?

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Death, Hands, World

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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• The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Sheep, Mountain, Valleys

  1829 TheMisfortunes of Elphin,'TheWar-Song of DinasVawr'.

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• My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Book, Quarrels, Quoting

  Thomas Love Peacock (1856). “Maid Marian, and Crotchet Castle”, p.177

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• Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Names, Doctrine, Changed

  Thomas Love Peacock (1829). “The misfortunes of Elphin, by the author of Headlong hall”, p.89

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• How troublesome is day! It calls us from our sleep away; It bids us from our pleasant dreams awake, And sends us forth to keep or break Our promises to pay. How troublesome is day!

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Dream, Sleep, Promise

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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• The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Doe, Genius, Blight

  "Nightmare Abbey".

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• The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Reading, Class, Poetry

  Thomas Love Peacock, Herbert Francis Brett Brett-Smith (1921). “Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith”

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